Press Release
AVAX by Avalanche Now Live on Solana with Sunrise
Sunrise now enables AVAX, the native token of Avalanche, to trade natively across the Solana ecosystem. With AVAX accessible on Solana, users can hold and trade AVAX directly through Solana wallets, DEXs, and DeFi apps — without leaving the network.
Avalanche is one of the longest-running Layer 1 platforms in crypto, with a level of institutional attention that few networks outside of Ethereum and Solana can match. VanEck launched the first U.S. spot AVAX ETF earlier this year, while BlackRock deployed a tokenized fund on Avalanche in late 2025. Its availability on Solana is overdue.
Through Sunrise, AVAX arrives on Solana as a canonical asset — not a wrapped derivative — with liquid markets, and is immediately tradable across Jupiter, Meteora, Raydium, Orca, and the broader Solana DeFi stack. The Solana version of AVAX will function like any other native Solana asset from the moment it goes live.
A Native Solana Market for AVAX
Until now, trading AVAX onchain meant operating within Avalanche's own DeFi ecosystem or routing through centralized exchanges. Solana users who wanted exposure had no native path to get it.
That gap is now closed. AVAX on Solana means Solana-native wallets, traders, and protocols can trade AVAX against familiar Solana-native assets, including SOL, USDC, JUP, or any other asset in the ecosystem. Users no longer have to go through bridging workarounds or external exchange detours.
Like the Sunrise HYPE listing before it, AVAX is not a new token arriving at TGE: it is a well-established asset with deep market history and an active user base. Its availability on Solana reflects a core part of what Sunrise does: not just enabling day-one launches for new assets, but bringing proven, high-signal tokens to Solana as canonical, liquid markets.
This listing follows earlier Sunrise-supported launches including MON, HYPE, INX, and LIT, which brought new assets to Solana with deep liquidity from day one. AVAX represents the other side of Sunrise's role: bringing established, high-signal assets to Solana as native markets, regardless of where or when they originated.
Solana's Internet Capital Markets thesis holds that all meaningful assets should be globally accessible the moment they come onchain. Sunrise makes this possible by providing a reliable path for assets to arrive on Solana with liquidity and immediate distribution across the ecosystem. AVAX is the latest example of that thesis in practice.
"AVAX has been one of the most traded assets in crypto for years. Now Solana users can access it natively, the same way they access everything else," said Saeed Badreg, CEO of Wormhole Labs. "Solana is becoming the venue where every major asset trades. AVAX being natively available here is another step in that direction."
About Sunrise
Sunrise is the day one asset gateway of Solana. Sunrise enables new onchain assets—crypto, stocks, commodities, and more—to list on Solana with liquidity on day one, giving users and builders immediate access to live, tradable markets. Sunrise is made by Wormhole Labs.
About Wormhole Labs
Wormhole Labs is a technology company that specializes in building products, tools, and reference implementations to expand the cross-chain ecosystem. They are committed to open-source development and laying down the paths for a connected decentralized world.
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